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Thursday, March 18, 2004
Okay, here's a post to catch you up on things in the past few days. Over the weekend I wrote two final papers to finish up those classes when I turned them in on Monday, but I still hard a third paper to finish. Monday I drove down to my apartment and wrote the last paper up there. Then I went on campus a few hours before my final started so I would have plenty of time to turn those papers in (I'm paranoid like that). Obviously, I had too much time and spent most of my remaining free time in the bookstore like I usually do when I have time to kill before class. (It's fun to page through all though graphic novels and magazines and not feel the need to buy them, even though I'm reading them.) I was looking at a copy of the 30th anniversary edition of The Princess Bride (yes, the movie came from it) when the store announced its closing. I still had an hour to kill before my final, so I decided to buy the book. Well, the final came and went, and I was out early enough to drive home afterwards (it was a 7-10 timeslot, so getting out late meant staying the night at my apartment). So at about 10:20 I got home and was officially on Spring Break. The only real problem with this is that no one else is. No big deal, I kept myself busy over the last few days reading my novel. (I really think Goldman's novel is brilliant, not so much for the narrative of the story, but in the while myth he created about Morgenstern writing the novel and Goldman just "abridging" it. I confess I got caught up in the lie for a bit; Goldman really keeps it going, even in the 30th anniversary introduction.) Being that it's an anniversary book, the novel's filled with a slew of extras that contain bits of truth with a lot of fiction. With extras, I've decided that the order to read my book has to be: The Princess Bride, the Reunion Scene (mostly available in the book, but two postscripts aren't, but you can download them off the internet), 25th Anniversary Introduction, Buttercup's Baby: An Introduction (Buttercup's Baby is, supposedly, Morgenstern's sequel), chapter 1 of Buttercup's Baby (that's all that exists at this point), 30th Anniversary Introduction. Of course, it's not in that order in the book itself, so I got a little disoriented reading in the novel's order. And that brings me to today, of which very little has happened.
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